Year: 2005

This is a new one to me, and I like the suggestion: “Make original mistakes.”  Someone (Brad? Wendy? I can’t remember) said this in a board meeting about a month ago. I wrote it down on a piece of paper and have been carrying it around with me ever since. The concept is right on and meaningful no…

Marriott Marquis is the first to have this elevator… Originally uploaded by rklau. Too funny. Too freaking funny.

The joys of flying to O’Hare Originally uploaded by rklau. You just gotta hate when you see comments like this on the departure board… Amazingly, we made it out only a few minutes delayed, and arrived at O’Hare without incident. We were lucky.

I’m in New York at the Syndicate Conference in New York today (and tomorrow), and have had a terrific time finally meeting so many people who I’ve “known” for years. (Finally got to meet Scoble!) I’m too exhausted to post a full recap of the day’s events, other than to note that I hope I…

I love this… This certainly isn’t the first time we’ve heard stories like this, but it looks like a woman who was burgled of a few items, including a laptop and an iPod, quickly went on eBay and tracked down the stolen goods. The goods were traced back to a sports memorabilia dealer, who claimed…

Time Magazine breaks the story: Dave Chappelle is neither crazy nor on crack. Time subscribers (which I’m not) can access the full magazine article here. If I were a cynic, I’d point out that this sure has created a lot of free publicity at almost precisely the same time that Season 2 of Chappelle’s show…

Man, this is just too cool. I remember when Jenny wrote about this years ago, but I’m only just getting to implementing it on my end for the Naperville library (best library in the country, six years running, thank you very much!). And guess what? It works! This is a bookmarklet (a button in your…

Ross announced recently that Socialtext closed a B round of funding. In classic Ross fashion, he did the counter-intuitive (and brilliant, IMO) thing and chose not to trumpet the details, instead choosing to let bloggers hunt them down. A Socialtext starter package awaits the first person to connect all the dots: happy hunting! In related…

Man, this news about ReedSmith’s work with DolphinSearch (where, oh where, did spaces in company names go?) is just so exciting on so many levels: Byte and Switch has a story this morning on ComplianSeek with more about the genesis and particulars of the technology (Dolphins Aid Compliance): “DolphinSearch is the brainchild of a Berkeley…

Very cool development in the DuPage County blog world: the Daily Herald, in conjunction with Northwestern University, has launched a community blog site called Beep. Local bloggers can drop a line to beep@dailyherald.com to add their blog to the local blog list here. Favorite new local blog so far? Rays of Light, where Ray Trygstad…